On rocky slopes and peaks, plants are found in scattered patches where there is a bit of soil and some snow cover in winter.
The rover's first grainy photo, from a hazcam at the rear of the rover that will be used to limit risks, shows the left rear wheel, a little bit of soil and a cooling fin from the rover's radioisotope thermoelectric generator.
During the Karen question, Spencer described Karen as making an accurate claim because "there's only a little bit of soil and her plant still gained a lot of mass.
Under green chaparral, the gravitational movement of bits of soil, particles of sand, and other loose debris goes on month after month, year after year, especially in oversteepened environments, where it can represent more than half of all erosion.
"It can grow even in the crevices of hard volcanic rocks on little bits of moist soil and it outcompetes and chokes all vegetation," said naturalist Pradip Krishen, who is attempting to bring Rajasthan native plants back.
You may want to use a vegetable scrub brush, especially if your eggplant is from a farmer's market and still has bits of soil on it.
Slightly differently colored bits of soil, with a posthole where the post was — that kind of stuff".
The catch is that Curiosity team members can't tell yet whether the organic matter was once alive, was never alive and drifted onto Mars from space, or was simply cooked up in Curiosity's analytical instrument from lifeless bits of soil.
Driven by a passion seen all over town, from burgeoning P-Patches to residents cultivating forsaken bits of soil, Seattle's officials have declared 2010 the Year of Urban Agriculture.
